uses removed APIs - Drop pkg

Task Info (Flyspray)
Opened By	Alad Wenter (Alad)
Task ID	80098
Type	Bug Report
Project	Arch Linux
Category	Packages: Extra
Version	None
OS	All
Opened	2023-10-29 09:46:03 UTC
Status	Unassigned

Details

Description:

This hasn't been updated since 2014 and uses old APIs. In particular:

More issues in the code:

• aurphan -a uses rpc.php which no longer exists, and does not specify the RPC version (?v=5&type=info instead of ?type=info)
• jshon can't parse AUR RPC output with parse error: illegal index on arg 4, "Maintainer"
• aurphan -a uses 1 request per package, which causes rate limiting with large numbers of foreign packages
• aurphan -p uses 'https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?sort=pkgname&maintainer=orphan&page=1&repo=Community&repo=Core&repo=Extra&repo=Multilib' when Community no longer exists
• aurphan -f and aurphan -m don't work for the same reason

All in all,

1. nobody ostensibly still uses this
2. the code will only get more broken with the migration to gitlab
3. even with flyspray aurphan would require a rewrite to work again
4. there's no upstream repo and no active upstream author

I suggest to drop it entirely from the repos instead of patching it up.

Additional info:

• package version(s) 20140212-3
• config and/or log files etc.
• link to upstream bug report, if any

Steps to reproduce: